Blockbuster’s new owner, Dish Network, really does plan to keep the movie rental chain in business.

About 600 Blockbuster stores make up a list of leases that the No. 2 satellite television provider said it will assume in a Saturday filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York. But that also means that another 1,000 Blockbuster stores may be closing soon.

Before Dallas-based Blockbuster was sold earlier this month, it had trimmed its U.S. store count to 1,726 stores.

Dish’s list of stores it plans to keep open doesn’t include most Blockbuster locations inside Dallas. In Texas, about 65 stores made the latest cut, including 16 in Dallas-Fort Worth. Among them are only two Dallas stores, on McKinney Avenue in Uptown and at 4535 Frankford Road in Far North Dallas.

Dish hasn’t yet disclosed its full plans for Blockbuster, but those operations will probably phase down in the coming weeks as the business transitions to Dish’s Englewood, Colo., headquarters. It could keep the McKinney distribution center going to supply its stores and DVD-by-mail customers.

Dish Network won Blockbuster in a bankruptcy court auction on April 6 that drew several bidders. At the time, Dish said that it was interested in the stores while some other bidders planned to liquidate the video chain.

Dish Network’s $320 million acquisition of Blockbuster is expected to close on Thursday.

Blockbuster lawyer Martin Sosland, a partner in the Dallas office of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, said Sunday that Dish actually has a couple of days more to add to the list of leases and contracts it will assume.

Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in September and tried to reorganize, but its senior lenders and management couldn’t come up with a plan while its business rapidly deteriorated. It entered bankruptcy with 3,200 stores. In its heyday it had 5,700 U.S. stores and more than 3,300 international locations.

Other local stores that made it on Dish Network’s list are in Balch Springs, Burleson, DeSoto, Flower Mound, Fort Worth, Garland, Haltom City, Irving, Mansfield, McKinney and Mesquite.

Dish’s list of stores it plans to keep open in the Dallas-Fort Worth area includes the following: